I think that's the first time I've heard Wikipedia described as bewitching. I'll take it as a compliment.
FWIW, I have a hard time parsing this as bad news. Someone hiring 20,000 professional writers to create a freely accessible (though not distributable) encyclopedia is probably a net positive for humanity. I'm sure it will be heavily biased on political issues and heavily censored, but I doubt that will completely negate the value of the work. As an encyclopedia buff, I hope I can be forgiven for being secretly a little bit excited to hear about this effort. Cuba also has a state-sponsored Wikipedia competitor, EcuRed. Some of the articles are dripping with propaganda, but it's coverage of Cuban history and culture is actually much better than Wikipedia's (including Spanish Wikipedia). If this gives China an excuse to permanently block Wikipedia, I suppose it will be a net negative, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. You are now free to tar and feather me! > On May 2, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > And now, this: > https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/20000-chinese-writers-will-create-their-own-wikipedia-competitor/ > >> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The Iranian government by blocking several major websites (youtube, >> facebook, twitter) actually made people aware of anonymizers and people >> were able to use a wide range of them. >> Most popular ones that people in Turkey can use is: 1- Psiphon (a little >> bit slow, has an android app) 2- Hotspot shield (great, also andriod app) >> 3- Lantern (the only one that supports linux) >> Tor is good too but we have editing problems with that. >> >> Best >> >>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 12:57 PM Bináris <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> When I was in Iran, I could reach all the blocked sites (such as >> Facebook) >>> with Psiphon. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psiphon >>> And so do the local people. >>> Citizens of dictatorships are very efficient in using client-side >>> solutions. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
